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Ophcrack is a free and open source tool that can be used either within an existing OS (linux, Windows, OS X) environment or as a live-CD that boots its own version of linux. Either way, it has the ability to retrieve Windows password hashes and crack both LM and NT versions using a set of [...]

John the ripper is a password hash cracking tool that is available free for both unix/linux and Windows platforms. It autodetects the type of hash and by default uses a hybrid approach of dictionary and brute force attacks to attempt to crack the hash as quickly and efficiently as possible. It can use a wide [...]

Cain & Abel A suprisingly robust suite of tools, Cain and Able is often simply characterized as a password recovery/cracking tool, but if you take a look at the list of features below, you’ll see it is much more than that. The sniffing component of Cain collects a LOT of information and any password hashes [...]